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Japan AI Safety Institute

What Japan AI Safety Institute does

The Japan AI Safety Institute (AISI) is a Japanese government-supported organization focused on improving the safety evaluation of AI systems. Its mission centers on developing and promoting assessment methods, standards, and guidance that enable AI developers, providers, and users to evaluate and manage AI safety risks more reliably. AISI describes its core work as examining AI safety assessment techniques and criteria, supporting the creation of guidelines, and coordinating international collaboration with similar bodies in other countries (including the AI Safety Institute networks in the UK and the US).

AISI is hosted through Japan’s Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) as a secretariat, with a formal launch date of February 14, 2024.

News

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Aug 07, 2026 · Official · Japan AISIAI政策動向マンスリー情報(7月1日~7月31日)

A monthly policy roundup page that, among other content, references AI safety-related international and domestic policy context as part of AISI’s information-sharing activities.

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Jul 23, 2026 · Official · Japan AISIAIロボティクスに関するセーフティ評価観点ガイドの公開

AISI’s robotics sub-working group released an “AI Safety Evaluation Perspective Guide for Robotics,” organizing AI-robot risks into categories (physical, psychological, and social) and providing evaluation perspective items, including example use cases referenced by AISI’s evaluation guide.

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Jul 07, 2026 · Official · Japan AISIAIセーフティに関する評価観点ガイド(第1.20版)の公開

AISI published an updated “Guide to Evaluation Perspectives on AI Safety” (Version 1.20), describing expanded evaluation perspectives and example items, including an added perspective for agent systems that addresses “observation and control.”

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May 21, 2026 · Official · Japan AISI「JAI-Trust:日本の生成AIの安全性とセキュリティーのベンチマーク構築プロジェクト」を開催しました。

AISI hosted the “JAI-Trust” project event focused on building safety and security benchmarking foundations for generative AI in Japan, discussing directions and issues for objective evaluation and standardization.

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May 14, 2026 · Official · Japan AISIデータ品質マネジメントガイドブック(Data Quality Management Guidebook)公開

AISI released “Data Quality Management Guidebook (Version 1.02)” and associated checklist materials (Version 1.00), positioned as framework guidance for data quality management in support of appropriate AI realization.

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Feb 26, 2026 · Official · Japan AISIAIセーフティ評価環境 検討タスクフォース総会を開催しました。

AISI held a meeting for the “AI Safety Evaluation Environment Review Task Force,” describing the OSS “AI Safety Evaluation Environment,” its development and next directions, and reporting on 2025 activities and planned enhancements. The announcement states that about 100 people attended (in-person plus online).

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Funding

Latest disclosed valuationNot disclosed
Tracked capital$11 sourced round
DateRoundRaisedValuationLead / investorsEvidence
Sep 01, 2025Government initial funding / budget commitment (capacity)$1—
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+1 investor

What it builds

AI Safety Evaluation Environment (AIセーフティ評価環境)

An open-source AI safety evaluation environment that provides an evaluation tool and evaluation dataset aligned to AISI’s “Guide to Evaluation Perspectives on AI Safety,” including support for quantitative and qualitative evaluation and an automated red-teaming feature. AISI provides it as a prototype reference implementation and notes that results do not constitute official certification or guarantee by IPA or AISI.

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Guide to Evaluation Perspectives on AI Safety(AIセーフティに関する評価観点ガイド)

AISI’s guidance document for AI safety evaluation, intended to be used by AI system developers/providers when conducting safety assessments, including perspectives and example evaluation items.

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AI Red Teaming Methodology Guide(AIセーフティに関するレッドチーミング手法ガイド)

AISI’s guide on red teaming methodology for AI safety evaluation, intended as a reference for operators when developing and providing AI systems.

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Chief AI Officer Guides(Chief AI Officerガイド)

A framework document providing practical guidance for private-sector organizations to establish and operate a Chief AI Officer function, focusing on governance, organizational setup, and process rather than model-level technical specifications.

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Data Quality Management Guidebook(データ品質マネジメントガイドブック)

AISI’s data-quality management guidance for sustaining data quality needed for appropriate AI deployment, released as a versioned guidebook and supporting checklists.

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AI Incident Response Approach Book(AIインシデントレスポンス・アプローチブック)

A conceptual framework for building an AI incident response posture, including an “AI-IRS (AI Incident Response System)” approach for risks unique to AI systems.

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Milestones & partnerships

Jul 23, 2026
Robotics-specific evaluation perspectives published

AISI published a robotics safety evaluation perspectives guide for evaluating AI-enabled robots with categorized risk types and example use cases.

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Jul 07, 2026
Evaluation perspective guide expanded for AI agent systems

AISI published Version 1.20, adding evaluation perspective coverage tailored to agent systems via an “observation and control” perspective.

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May 14, 2026
Data quality management framework updated

AISI published Data Quality Management Guidebook Version 1.02 and associated checklist materials.

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Feb 26, 2026
Task force kickoff/knowledge-sharing for evaluation environment enhancement

AISI described the February 26, 2026 meeting as sharing the evaluation environment’s overview and discussing future direction and function enhancements via a task force.

Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. (会場言及)
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Sep 01, 2025
AI Safety Evaluation Environment released as OSS prototype (per AISI announcement)

AISI’s announcement for the evaluation-environment task force states the evaluation tool/environment was published as OSS in September 2025.

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Mar 28, 2025
Revision of evaluation perspective guide to Version 1.10 (per AISI framework page)

AISI’s framework page lists the guide’s Version 1.10 publication date (March 28, 2025) as part of its version history.

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Sep 18, 2024
Publication of the AI Safety Evaluation Perspectives Guide

IPA press release states AISI published “AI Safety Evaluation Perspective Guide” intended to help AI developers/providers reference basic considerations for performing AI safety evaluations.

Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
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Feb 14, 2024
Launch of AISI within IPA

AISI was established and launched within IPA as the organization responsible for evaluating and developing AI safety assessment methods, with leadership appointments announced by IPA.

Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
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Feb 14, 2024
Government announcement of AISI’s establishment

Japan’s Cabinet Office page describes the establishment of AISI and lists related ministries and organizations connected to the work.

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